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- Jan. 24, 1994: Died:Sri Chandrasekharendra Swamigal
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 24, 1994 Ice Follies
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> DIED. SRI CHANDRASEKHARENDRA SARASWATI SWAMIGAL, 99, one of
- five major leaders of Hinduism; in Kanchipuram, India. The son
- of a poor Brahman schoolteacher, Saraswati displayed such promise
- that he was chosen by a religious predecessor to be a spiritual
- leader when he was 13. He devoted the rest of his life to learning
- religious texts and nearly a dozen languages, becoming the greatest
- living scholar of his faith. The swamigal, who journeyed throughout
- India by foot over two decades, was a committed believer in
- religious tolerance, a tenet he preached in spite of the recent
- rise of an often violent form of Hindu chauvinism. For that
- he earned the respect of India's Muslim minority.
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